Bag of Jewels
Author: Susan Hayward
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780975229149
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Author: Susan Hayward
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780975229149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alysia Burton Steele
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1455562831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
Author: Vanessa Moore
Publisher: Vanessa Moore LLC
Published: 2022-09-29
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is within the first few weeks of school that Diamond meets her best friend Sapphire, and another two months when the girls find out that they are, in fact, sisters. Their father, internationally known DJ Two-Six-Eight, attempted to escape fathering both girls.Diamond and Sapphire are intelligent, sassy, beautiful, and faithful friends to their peers, but they encounter some hard lessons in those friendships, as well as their relationships with their boyfriends, and most importantly, their mothers.
Author: Yvonne Hackenbroch
Publisher: Editions Assouline
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781614282037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenaissance jewels are among the most alluring manifestations of an age that experienced the widening of horizons, from the Old World to the New. This volume overflows with luxurious imagery expressing the boundless creativity and spirit of the Age of the Renaissance. Yvonne Hackenbroch relates the tales of the jewels, the artists, and the patrons who commissioned them.
Author: Jewel
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-10-19
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0062029223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most respected artists in popular music today, Jewel is much more than a music industry success with her debut album selling more than 10 million copies. Before her gifted songwriting comes an even more individual art: Poetry. Now available in paperback, A Night without Armor highlights the poetry of Jewel taken from her journals which are both intimate and inspiring, to be embraced and enjoyed. Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect. In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.
Author: David Gorman
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published:
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1039191657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeth and Julia Ambrose are pros at solving mysteries at their favorite amusement park. But can Julia solve her biggest mystery yet without her big brother? After finding a ruby at Waldameer, Julia and her friends are soon searching the concession stands for stolen jewels worth millions. Time is ticking because the thieves who stole the jewels are coming to claim their lost loot. Can the kid detectives outwit the thieves? Does Julia have what it takes to lead the team by herself? Find out in this exciting all-girls mystery about believing in yourself!
Author: M.J. Rose
Publisher: Blue Box Press
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1952457084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller M.J. Rose comes a provocative and moving story of a young female architect in post-World War II Manhattan, who stumbles upon a hidden treasure and begins a journey to discovering her mother’s life during the fall of the Romanovs. Sophia Moon had always been reticent about her life in Russia and when she dies, suspiciously, on a wintry New York evening, Isobelle despairs that her mother’s secrets have died with her. But while renovating the apartment they shared, Isobelle discovers something among her mother’s effects—a stunning silver tiara, stripped of its jewels. Isobelle’s research into the tiara’s provenance draws her closer to her mother’s past—including the story of what became of her father back in Russia, a man she has never known. The facts elude her until she meets a young jeweler, who wants to help her but is conflicted by his loyalty to the Midas Society, a covert international organization whose mission is to return lost and stolen antiques, jewels, and artwork to their original owners. Told in alternating points of view, the stories of the two young women unfurl as each struggles to find their way during two separate wars. In 1915, young Sofiya Petrovitch, favorite of the royal household and best friend of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, tends to wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital within the grounds of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and finds the love of her life. In 1948 New York, Isobelle Moon works to break through the rampant sexism of the age as one of very few women working in a male-dominated profession and discovers far more about love and family than she ever hoped for. In M.J. Rose’s deftly constructed narrative, the secrets of Sofiya’s early life are revealed incrementally, even as Isobelle herself works to solve the mystery of the historic Romanov tiara (which is based on an actual Romanov artifact that is, to this day, still missing)—and how it is that her mother came to possess it. The two strands play off each other in finely-tuned counterpoint, building to a series of surprising and deeply satisfying revelations.
Author: Judy Andrews
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0595400302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Imani Jewel Henderson's mysterious father dies on her 29th birthday, Christmas day, 1999, she begins a journey toward self-love, and faces many challenges. Can she unravel the secrets of her family's disturbing past when she was a foster child? Why did her mother commit suicide and leave her all alone? Why did her father keep notes about a holy river, an Orphan Train, and a murder in 1901? How will she battle depression and alcohol addiction? Will Imani heal from two abusive relationships with married men? How can she repair what she destroyed when she slept with her best friend's husband? Will she ever find the love that will connect her to her Gullah/Geechee heritage? Imani discovers that the answers are hidden in the rich details of her African American family traditions of quilts, folklore, Eva Creek Island, and the affluent town of Jewel Park, New York.
Author: Max Pemberton
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1775458075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic mystery buffs looking for a new twist on the standard whodunit should dip into this collection of unusual and tightly plotted tales. Jewel Mysteries: From a Dealer's Note Book contains a selection of satisfying short stories that all revolve around jewels and precious stones -- and humanity's seemingly insatiable lust for them.